Palm oil used in 50% of supermarket food

It’s hard to believe that there are only 5000-7000 Sumatran orangutans left in the wild. These amazing creatures are being left for dead and their habitat being destroyed for the production of palm oil.

Palm oil is a lucrative business and consequently, these amazing animals are being killed off in order to ensure palm oil companies are profiting. The production of unsustainable palm oil is killing the orangutans and they are being left to starve with minimal food

The Melbourne Zoo is pushing for the government to make it mandatory for all supermarkets to label their products which include palm oil. Many of the products we are consuming don’t label the palm oil properly, disguising it as vegetable oil instead.

Consumers have the right to know what’s inside the products they are purchasing. Misleading and deceptive behaviour is what has led to this industry growing.